At least ten people, including children, died on Friday night in a bombing attack on a Russian-occupied town in the Ukrainian province of Zaporizhia, reported a local official appointed by the Kremlin, who blamed Kiev for the attack.
The Tokmak municipal government said on Telegram that the attack hit three apartment blocks. Five people were pulled alive from the wreckage and thirteen were hospitalized, the head of the region appointed by Russia, Yevhen Balitsky, indicated this Saturday.
Russian emergency services worked through the rubble in hopes of rescuing civilians trapped under their homes in Tokmak, in an area of southern Ukraine that the Kremlin illegally annexed after the start of the war in 2022.
A Ukrainian rocket hit a machine-building plant in Luhansk, Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, injuring three civilians, Vladimir Rogov, a Moscow-based official, posted on Telegram on Saturday.
Leonid Pasechnik, a Kremlin-appointed official, said on Telegram that Russian-appointed authorities in Luhansk planned to bring the plant back online “in the near future,” but did not say what would have been produced there.
Households
Rogov and Pasechnik reported that the rocket attack also damaged homes. A video appearing on Rogov's Telegram post showed a column of smoke rising into the sky behind a low-rise house, which appeared undamaged.
Ukrainian officials did not acknowledge or comment on any of the attacks.
In Ukraine, Russian forces bombed a food delivery vehicle in the northern Chernihiv region, killing its civilian driver, provincial governor Vyacheslav Chaus said. Elsewhere in the country, at least two civilians were killed by Russian bombings on Friday and early Saturday, according to authorities. Both deaths were recorded in the eastern Donetsk region, which is on the front line, according to posts by the governor, Vadym Filashkin, on Telegram.
In the northeastern area of Kharkiv, overnight Russian shelling left one man trapped in rubble and injured another, said Governor Oleh Syniehubov and Ukrainian emergency services. Both were hospitalized, according to a message from emergency services on Telegram.
Local Ukrainian officials reported that more than a dozen civilians were injured in Russian bombing in recent hours in the north, south and east of the country.
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